Method for increasing the work performance of a manufacturing executing system (mes) and an enterprise resource planning system (erp)

Abstract

A method increases the work performance of a manufacturing executing system (MES) and an enterprise resource planning system (ERP). The method includes forming the enterprise resource planning system to be enabled for planning the business resources of a production plant and for releasing production orders to the manufacturing execution system. The manufacturing execution system is enabled to control and to execute a production process on the production plant according to the production orders. An operation schedule is created by the enterprise resource planning system, the operation schedule represents a production workflow of the production process. A number of operation definitions is created. Each operating definition contains a catalogue of pre-defined respective work orders. The operation schedule is downloaded by the enterprise resource planning system thereby creating a set of corresponding work orders being executable by the manufacturing execution system.

1 . A method for increasing work performance of a manufacturing executing system (MES) and an enterprise resource planning system (ERP), which comprises the steps of:
 forming the enterprise resource planning system to be enabled for planning business resources of a production plant and for releasing production orders to the manufacturing execution system;   forming the manufacturing execution system to be enabled to control and to execute a production process on the production plant according to the production orders;   creating an operation schedule by the enterprise resource planning system, the operation schedule representing a production workflow of the production process;   creating a number of operation definitions, each operating definition having a catalogue of pre-defined work orders;   downloading the operation schedule by the enterprise resource planning system thereby creating a set of corresponding work orders being executable by the manufacturing execution system, the creating of the set of corresponding work orders being achieved by extracting at least one of the pre-defined work orders relevant to the operation schedule from the catalogues resulting in extracted work orders;   updating quantities for the production process in the extracted work orders by the manufacturing execution system resulting in updated work orders;   executing the updated work orders under control of the manufacturing execution system resulting in executed work orders;   preparing operation performance data on the executed work orders by the manufacturing execution system; and   calculating process operation performance by the enterprise resource planning system.   
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , which further comprises filling the catalogue via an asynchronous job at engineering level of the manufacturing execution system.